Battery grant winners: a selective list

In case you’ve been on summer vacation in Aust here are some of the companies that received grants from the U.S. Department of Energy on August 5 in the first round of the $2.4 billion Electric Drive Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative. (See my 12:30 post today for why this is all important and for how to invest in auto batteries yourself.)

Johnson Controls: $299.2 million

A123Systems: $249.1 million

General Motors: $240 million

Compact Power, on behalf of LG Chem: $151.4 million

EnerDel: $118.5 million

Ford Motor: $100 million

Saft America: $95.5 million

Delphi Automotive Systems: $89.3 million

Chrysler: $73 million

Polypore subsidiary Celgard: $49.2 million

UQM Technologies: $45.1 million

Magna E-Car Systems of America: $40 million

Exide Technologies with Axion Power International: $34.3 million

Smith Electric: $10 million

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